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- Fixgroup - A program to fix up Windows 3.x group files when
- you move the group targets directory.
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- A Windows 3.x group file has many pointers in it that tell Windows
- where to find things like the program to execute and its icons.
- If you end up having to move the Windows directory or another
- directory that a group file points to, you will then have to go and
- change every entry that is now "gone" by doing a change property on
- every item. This program attempt to help in this by going thru a group
- and a supplied path and fixing the entries for you. This program is
- driven by an Environment variable "FIXGROUP". You should set this
- variable to point to where the posible targets for the group to be fixed
- are located and then run it creating a new group file. Then start up
- Windows with the new group file and see what was done.
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- This code has been tested with Windows 3.0 and 3.1 and with varying sizes
- of group files. Although it appears to work you USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!
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- Format:
- SET FIXGROUP=C:\WINDOWS;D:\WINAPPS;J:\WINMISC;X:\WINNET; ..AND SO ON
- FIXGROUP INPUT.GRP OUTPUT.GRP
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- There will be many different diagnostics issued during the execution
- so you may want to redirect the output to a file to look at later.
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- REMEMBER !!!! Always back up any files that you modify !!!!
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- I can be reached at the following:
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- John C Bacas
- c/o Elegance, Unlimited
- P.O Box 1663
- Morristown, NJ 07960-1663
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- or on the EXECUTIVE NETWORK BBS 914-667-4066
- or on Compuserve 76104,447
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